I think once they stopped trying to be Top Gear, i.e. the studio version that first premiered on Prime, and instead went with just a big special it was better. Not great but better.

No one can keep going forever, but I do find the Grand Tour, Clarkson’s Farm, and James May’s “Our Man In...” series by far the only watchable programming on Prime. They should throw more money at them to make content because Prime’s other shows and movies aren’t worthy of Hallmark-channel’s discount bin.

My favorite thing to come out of that story (other than the Waylon Jennings quote), was that Keith vehemently denied it, Kristofferson decided to be classy and say he didn’t recall, but then Lisa Meyers [Kris’ wife] was like, “Oh yeah, that 100% happened” 😂

Kris is a real one.

He really was just a proud American. And that’s not a bad thing.

Watch the Sinead O’Connor documentary. That scene where Kris Kristofferson goes out to physically defend and support her while she’s trying to stand in front of the crowd for a show is exemplary of how much of a goddamn hero this dude is.

It’s not strange. They were wrong. It was obvious. The people who were right were obviously right. To get to the point where you were obviously wrong, you have to examine WHY you were obviously wrong. And if you do that, suddenly you’re in conflict with some fundamental ways you engage with information.

Ngl, “Those Cunts” sounds like it would be a hell of a great punk band

Ha, thanks for finding it. So funny how the article doesn’t actually name him but the allusion was so strong that I just remember it being him 15 years later.

It was “Kris Kristofferson: The Last Outlaw Poet”, April 16, 2009, but it doesn’t actually name Keith, just implies it was him. I didn’t know about this story, though, so my thanks. 

“Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia”

Many of today’s MAGA Republicans blame globalists and/or the “deep state” for the Iraq war. George W. Bush either was a globalist or was tricked into the war. Depends on who you ask. Either way, the people that today hype Trump’s “no new wars” brag are the same ones that called anyone opposed to the Iraq war…

Back in I wanna say 2006/2007/2008 Ethan Hawke wrote a profile on Kris Kristofferson for Rolling Stone. A big aspect of the profile was about how out of place Kristofferson was in the country music world during the Iraq War since he was a Vietnam vet and outspoken liberal. There’s a scene in that profile where…

“And even a progressive liberal, even I will admit that “we’ll put a boot in your ass, it’s the American way” scratched an itch that a lot of us were feeling right after 9/11.”

Lincoln was first and foremost for a strong federal government, the complete antithesis of today’s GOP.

Toby freaking Keith gets a writeup but not a word on Wayne Kramer. SMDH.

I don’t disagree with that, and I also think he was supportive of “America” in a generalized way and not necessarily a politicized way, at least at first (I obviously can’t claim to know what he actually thought or felt). I do think it’s still problematic when people don’t examine what that kind of thing means, and…

One strange, frustrating feature of the politics around the Iraq War is that a broad consensus has emerged that the war was a colossal mistake, without any corresponding acknowledgement that the people saying that in 2003 were right. I suspect that many of the people who were eager to vilify the Dixie Chicks in 2003…

Me, I would buy this. Especially with the manual shown in the photos (even more doubtful the states will see that). I’m in the market for a simple truck that doesn’t cost $40 grand. I’d love to get the F150 single cab, but I was looking at a $48,000 out the door price. Yikes

100% this - a base Grand Wagoneer is about $15k more than a base Yukon Denali, and the five figure discounts getting dumped on the Wagoneer sort of back that up.